Chef Manager

• Full time
• Monday to Friday - 07:00am - 3:00pm
• £35000 per annum plus our Sodexo employee benefits package
• Opportunities for professional development

Chef Manager

Reading, RG4 9NH

At Sodexo, we’re passionate about our people. We know that our teams are the key to delivering exceptional service and creating meaningful experiences for our clients, customers, and employees.

We are looking for an organised and motivated Chef Manager to oversee a small on-site catering operation. The successful candidate will manage a team of four employees, maintain high food service standards, and ensure the smooth day-to-day running of the unit.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys leading a team, delivering high-quality catering services, and building strong relationships with clients and colleagues.

As a Chef Manager

you'll:

• Manage and support a team of four catering staff, ensuring high standards of performance and service.

• Prepare, organise, and deliver food services in line with agreed service standards and client expectations.

• Coordinate hospitality catering for meeting rooms and occasional special events.

• Build strong working relationships with clients, customers, and the on-site facilities team.

• Monitor and control the financial performance of the unit, ensuring costs remain within budget.

• Maintain accurate administration, reporting, and payroll processes.

• Ensure full compliance with health and safety, food hygiene, and company policies.

• Maintain high standards of cleanliness, food safety, and allergen management.

• Recruit, train, and develop team members while conducting regular performance reviews.

• Ensure maintenance issues are reported and resolved promptly with the facilities team.

What we're looking for

• Essential

  • Previous catering or hospitality experience.

  • Experience managing or supervising a team.

  • Experience managing budgets and monitoring financial performance.

  • Good literacy, numeracy, and IT skills including Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook.

  • Strong organisational and time management skills.

  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

  • Ability to work under pressure and maintain high standards.

  • Self-motivated with a proactive and flexible approach.

• Desirable

  • Level 3 Food Hygiene Certificate.

  • NVQ Level 2 Chef qualification or equivalent.

  • Experience delivering training and developing team members through coaching and support.

Why Sodexo?:

Working with Sodexo is more than a job; it’s a chance to be part of something greater.

Belong

in a company and team that values you for you. 

Act

with purpose and have an impact through your everyday actions.

Thrive

in your own way.

We also offer a range of perks, rewards and benefits for our colleagues and their families:

• Unlimited access to an online platform offering wellbeing support
• An extensive Employee Assistance Programme to help with everyday issues or life's larger problems, including legal and financial advice, support with work or personal issues impacting your wellbeing
• Access to a 24hr virtual GP Service
• Sodexo Discounts Scheme, offering great deals 24/7 across popular high street retailers (also open to friends and family)
• Save for your future by becoming a member of the Pension Plan
• Opportunities to enable colleagues to grow and succeed throughout their career at Sodexo, including a variety of learning and development tools
• Bike to Work Scheme to help colleagues to do their bit for the environment whilst keeping fit
• Sodexo UK and Irelands enhanced benefits and leave policies

A little more about Sodexo

At Sodexo, our purpose is to create a better every day for everyone to build a better life for all. As the global leader in services that improve the Quality of Life, we operate in 55 countries, serving over 100million consumers each day through our unique combination of On-Site Food and FM Services, Benefits & Rewards Services and Personal & Home Services.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer. We are a forces friendly employer. We welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities. We encourage our employees to get involved with our Employee Networks such as Pride, Sodexo Parents & Carers, Sodexo Disability, Ability network, SoTogether, Generations and Origins.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations. We run a Disability Confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria for the job.

Click here to read more about what we do to promote an inclusive culture.

Ready to be part of something greater?

Sodexo reserves the right to close this advert early if we are in receipt of a high number of applications

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• HR-5933_Benefits UK Brochure V9.pdf